542 pages, 8 plates, cloth, dj, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the dj: Few novelists have led the sort of life that makes a great story. Nicholas Monsarrat - one of the world's most successful authors - has, and he tells it here with complete candor, lavishing on it all the craftsmanship and narrative and sensuous appeal he brings to his fiction. For example, the stunning sequence here describing convoy duty in the North Atlantic in 1941 attains all the power of its fictional parallel, The Cruel Sea.

BREAKING BREAKING OUT AUTOBIOGRAPHY NICHOLAS MONSARRAT MARITIME ADVENTURE